PLANO, Texas (AP) ― Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione has died in a suburban Dallas hospital at age 79. A statement issued by the Guccione family says he died Wednesday at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano after a long battle with cancer. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Guccione introduced Penthouse to the American public in 1969, at the height of the feminist movement and the sexual revolution.

Bob was famous for getting a bunch of famous actors to appear in what he claimed would be a classy, and only mildly bawdy, retelling of the Caligula story. He stuck a bunch of hard core scenes in without their knowledge, resulting in all of the major actors disavowing the movie.

I used to subscribe to Games magazine a loooong time ago. It got bought by Omni and I cancelled my subscription in protest.

Games magazine died soon after, but I think that it has come back from the dead.

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